Combination cabinet and dressing table



Oct. 18, 1955 BRILL COMBINATION CABINET AND DRESSING TABLE Filed March 23, 1953 TJEP.

2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR [WA/073F111 AGENT Oct. 18, 1955 l. BRILL 2,721,107

COMBINATION CABINET AND DRESSING TABLE Filed March 23, 1955 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 i9 51 5 {50 I AGENT United States Patent O COMBINATION CABINET AND DRESSING TABLE Irwin Brill, New York, N. Y.

Application March 23, 1953, Serial No. 343,857

6 Claims. 0. 312226) This invention relates to a combined cabinet and dressing table including clothes rack means, shoe support means, shirt housing means, mirror means and tie rack means.

An object of this invention is to provide in kit form mass producible means which can be readily assembled by an unskilled person into a combined cabinet and dressing table.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved compact combined cabinet and v dressing table wherein wood, plastic and the like is largely used as a substitute for metal.

A further object of this invention is to provide a combined cabinet and dressing table with means afiording the storage of items constituting wearing apparel within a minimum of space and wherein said items are readily available.

Still another object of this invention is to provide a device which is a combined cabinet and dressing table and includes displaceable elements for storing items constituting wearing apparel and for permitting access to the latter even while the device is being used as a dressing table.

Yet another object of this invention is to provide a combined cabinet and dressing table which occupies a minimum amount of floor space and wherein items which constitute wearing apparel are separately, accessibly and compactly stored so as to avoid soiling of the latter.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more particularly described, and the combination and arrangement of parts will be shown in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims.

Reference will now be had to the drawings, wherein like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a combined cabinet and dressing table constructed in accordance with this invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the combined cabinet and dressing table with the front curtain removed in order to expose the interior of the cabinet.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the combined cabinet and dressing table with the curtains removed.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side view of the combined cabinet and dressing table on a larger scale showing the details of the mirror support, curtain support, and of the hinge means for the shirt housing closure, as well as the details of the assembly of the table top to the legs.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary front view of the combined cabinet and dressing table on a larger scale showing the details of the mirror support and of the drape support.

Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the shoe rack constructed according to the invention and of the means for assembling said shoe rack to one of the legs of the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Fig. 8 is a view of another modification of the means ice for assembling the shoe rack shown in Fig. 7 to one of the legs of the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a modified shoe rack and of the corresponding means for assembling the latter to one of the legs of the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Fig. 10 is an enlarged detail view of the ball detent means which can be used in conjunction with the mirror support for maintaining the mirror in a predetermined position.

Fig. 11 shows a fragmentary view of a modification of the invention wherein the mirror and the tie rack or clothes rack are separately mounted for relative displacement with respect to the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Fig. 12 shows a fragmentary top plan view of the modified form of the invention shown in Fig. 11.

In the illustrated embodiments of the invention, a Y

table top 20 is supported by a plurality of spaced legs 21. Depending from the periphery of the table top are curtains, or drapes, 22, 23 supported in a manner that will be presently explained.

In accordance with the present invention, a specific embodiment for suporting the curtains 22 and 23 comprises grooves 25 located substantially along the perimeter of the lower portion 24 of table top 29. In Figures 5 and 6 the support elements 26 are shown in assembled position within grooves 25. Elements 26 are slidably guided and retained within grooves 25 and these elements are provided with curtain supporting hooks 27. Elements 26 are positioned in grooves 25 by appropriate means, not shown, which may include spring means urging outwardly the ends of the elements. Alternatively, the grooves may be extended to the periphery of table top 20 and the elements may then be inserted in grooves 25 in obvious manner.

As shown in Figures 4 and 5 table top 20 is provided with at least one depending lug 40, located at each of the corners thereof. Each of legs 21 may either be made from a tubular body having any appropriate cross section determined by the cross section of the corresponding lug 40 or provided with a cavity 41 at the end thereof. The inner dimensions of each of legs 21 or of cavity 41 permit the insertion of depending lugs 40.

When assembling table top 20 and legs 21, the legs 21 may be retained on the lugs 40 by a friction fit which can be obtained in any manner as a result of cementing, hammering, force fitting, or by any heat treatment including welding.

Now referring to Figures 1 and 4 table top 20 includes a plurality of sections 50, 51, 52 at least one of which is hinged. Sections 51 and 52 are formed by cutting away portions of table top 20 which was originally made from a solid piece or slab of wood, plastic and the like.

Each of sections 51 and 52 is provided with handle means 58, 59, whereby the sections may be manually displaced.

Section 51 is hingedly secured at 53, 53' to section 50 and may be pivoted outwardly to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 5. A shirt housing 54 is provided with a trapezoidal section or a section similar to the conic section obtained in cutting a truncated oblique cone by a plane perpendicular to the base thereof and passing through the imaginary apex thereof. This section is advantageous in permitting the storage of a maximum number of shirts within a compact space. The housing 54 is secured to the lower portion 24 of section 50 and below section 51. The shirt housing 54 includes means 55 which consists either of pins, tacks and the like for permanently securing the housing 54 to section 50 or of projections on the ends of the housing 54 cooperating with guide rails slidably receiving said projections to 65 for pivoting movement about said bar.

thereby permit removal of the housing 54 from section 50 upon displacement of the housing relative to said seetion.

Section 52 is provided with standards 56 having spring urged ball detent means 69 illustrated in Fig, lO'an'd cooperating with support means 60 in order to adjustabl-y supp'ort section 2 between an upper position wherein mirror 70 is fully exposed and a lower'position wherein the surface of section 52 lies in a plane common with the plane in which section 50 extends. Support means 6 includes tubular elements 61 provided with oblique openings or indentations 62 adapted to receive ball detent means 69 and bracket means 63 adapted to be secured by bolts, lugs, cementing means, Welding and the like, to the legs 21 and to elements 61 for fixedly supporting each of said tubular elements 61 to at least one of said legs 21. Cam projection 64 is formed on tubular element 61. Standards 56 are interconnected by transverse bar 65 supporting substantially L shaped bodies 66 each having one leg secured to a mirror body 70, the other leg being secured to bar If desired, spring means, not shown, may be mounted on bar 65 and abut mirror 70 or bodies 66 to thereby urge mirror 70 to any predetermined angular position relative to the vertical when section 52 has been raised. The portion of bar 65 between bodies 66 forms a rack for supporting ties or if desired clothes hangers having their longitudinal axis parallel to the longitudinal axis of bar 65 so that overcoats may also be stored in the combined cabinet and dressing table.

Cam projection 64 is engageable with mirror 70 for moving the latter so that it is substantially vertical when section 52 is in its lower position. A raised portion 67 is provided on at least one of standards 56 in order to limit the angular deviation or inclination of said mirror.

with respect to the vertical when section 52 is in its upper position.

Substantially U-shaped rod 73 is suitably secured to section 50. Rod 73 forms clothes supporting means or a rack and support for a plurality of hangers for articles of clothing. If desired, rod 73 may be longitudinally displaced.

Protector body 74 may be made from any appropriate transparent or opaque material such as plastic, Celluloid, fabric and the like, and is secured at one end 75 to section 50 while the other end includes means 76 attachable to each of legs 21. The interior of body 74 and snrface- 24 of section 50 define a chamber or space 77 within which a shoe rack 80 is supported.

Referring to Figures 4 and7 the cantilever shoe rack 80 includes a pair of bars 81, 82, interconnected by a plate 33 or the like. Bar 82 is provided with bifurcated extremities 85. Channel bars 86 which are suitably secured to legs 21 include arms 86 spaced from legs 21 so as to receive the extremities 85 .of bar 82 and thereby support the shoe rack 80 on said legs. 7

Referring to Fig. 8 bar 82 m be provided with a reduced end portion 85' instead of the bifurcated extremities 85 and leg 21' is provided with an opening ,87 adapted to receive end portion 86 tor securing the shoe rack to said legs.

A modified shoe rack is shown in Fig. 9 and includes a pair of bars 81, 82, joined by L-shaped rods .83, 84, provided with reversely bent extremities .8 8, .89 adapted to be seated in a notch 90 and a groove 91, respectively, provided on leg 21".

F gures 11 an s a o fi d t m of the in ention wherein sections 92 and 93-have been substituted for section 52, and hollow elements 94 have been substituted for tubular elements 61. Hollow elements 9.4 are each provided with at least a pair of perforations 95,, 9,6, 113V.- g their axes lying n nor sndisolar pl ne. .Ho y ver the axes of p f r tions 5 96 y h extend alon th a vertical line or an ob ue e and they ne d 4. not be parallel or coextensive. Standards 97, 98 which are provided on sections 91, 92 are received within perforations 95, 96, respectively. The standards 98 are also interconnected by means 65, 66 for supporting mirror 70 in the manner shown in Fig. 6.

Transverse rod 99 joints standards 97 and forms another rack or support for garment hangers or for ties. Handle means 59, 59 is similar to that already described and may be grasped to lift separately the sec.- tions 92, 93. The ball detent means shown in Fig. 10 is provided in element 9.4 and permits adjusting the height f t e m rr r uppo t nd of th i or gar rack portion. For instance, when an overcoat is supported on rack 99 by a garment hanger the section 92 is maintained in raised position to thereby avoid soiling the bottom of the overcoat. The raised position of section 92 does not interfere with the raising of seco f s d s cti n an ooo o ato with sect 92 when vboth ore isc o tha tho o erc at is so pr e y h mir or n addition the su s of ection 92 adjacent standards 97 may each be provided with a p t ho n ho o y ho art les of lothing supp ed n ack 99 ann e oon t am he sides o the combined cabinet and o in abl a d the art les. of

clothing are better protected against soiling.

ous ,v th s a dard a the los may be ma of o m pla t oand e like, h eg 1 may th r b Pro id d ith oa e h e s, not s n, o facilitate moving the combined cabinet and dressing table,

h hi t ho sing o othos supp rt rack 3 an pro t body 4 a Posi oned b ow table top o th g m nt han er uppo ted by r ck 73 i fu ly oc upy he spa e b t e h us .54 and y 4 th by permitting positioning the articles of clothing supported y sa d h n rs so th t he bott m o the ari lo is wel above e floo a d t e article may be emoved p n displ oing the curtain .23 on e ther s flo o the ombined c bitiot and d ess ng table o upo di plac h .2- i i i Although a plurality of embodiments of the invention a e een descr ed an illust ate i i l h under oo a ar ous cha ges and mod fic tions c be ,mado e e n w th ut departing ro h sp i of he inyont on as defined by the appended cla ms.

at is laim d is;

.1,- A ombin d s ino dress ng ble f r hous n ea n pp rel includin c s, hoe shi ts nd he l e, omp is ng a i l ra ity of suppor in loss, a b e top d ectly supp i od ysaid log and includin a fixed frame ction in lud g open ng and a 911 ali y o spa d indep nd n ly mo able soo ioosou ed Within said openings. tor mo ement. botweoa on onesat e pos ion a d a e ond posit-ion to: cl sin sai pen ngs where sa d table top i provided with a flat continuous surface, first means including mirror means, k uppo t mean an a fi s o aid mova l s io said first means being connected to a portion of said logs for Slidably mounting said mirror and rack support means between said operative and second posit-ions, second means including a second of said movable sections and housing means both connected to said fixed frame section for housing said shirts, third means connected .to said fixed frame section and to the remainder of said shirts may be withdrawn from said second means upon displacement of said second section.

3. A combined cabinet and dressing table according to claim 1, wherein said second means and said third means are each provided with a trapezoidal cross-section and the adjacent sides thereof define a substantially triangular space adapted to receive the shoulder and neck portions of said units supported on said first rack means.

4. A combined cabinet and dressing table according to claim 1, comprising fourth means connected to said third means for movement relative thereto and including second rack means, whereby said second rack means is movable independently of said third means and said last mentioned rack means is adapted to support overcoats.

5. A combined cabinet and dressing table according to claim 1, comprising cantilever rack means for supporting shoes, said cantilever rack means being supported within said first space and cooperating with said third means to thereby prevent soiling of said suits when said shoes are placed within said third means and on said cantilever rack means.

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